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Title: Southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels under construction, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [October 1935?]
1935-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Work on Huge North Figueroa-Street Tunnel Project Far Advanced," 13 Oct. 1935: D1.
Photograph of the south portal (at Bishops Road) of the fourth and southernmost Figueroa Street Tunnel while under construction. Workers are visible throughout the site with one man standing directly below the tunnel opening. There are tracks running toward the tunnel, as well as scaffolding constructed on one side.
The Figueroa Street Tunnels are a set of four four-lane tunnels that carry northbound traffic on State Route 110 (the Arroyo Seco Parkway) through Elysian Park in Los Angeles.
Text from negative sleeve: 1683. 1/10/36. Figueora [sic] St Tunnel.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10266
ark:/21198/zz002hb6hf
Subject: Arroyo Seco Parkway (Calif.)
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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